# LUX Collections Discovery — Configuration API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-configuration-api/  
**Provider:** Yale University — https://apis.io/providers/yale/  
**Base URL:** https://lux.collections.yale.edu  
**Documentation:** https://lux.collections.yale.edu/

LUX Collections Discovery — Configuration API is one of 13 APIs that [Yale University](https://apis.io/providers/yale/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Configuration and Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Advanced-search configuration metadata for LUX, describing searchable terms by scope, search options and stop words. Verified 200 returning 43,502 bytes of JSON on 2026-08-19.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/openapi/yale-configuration-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://github.com/project-lux/lux-marklogic/blob/main/docs/lux-backend-api-usage.md
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/project-lux
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/project-lux/lux-middletier
- **x-vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/yale-vocabulary.yml
- **x-rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/rules/yale-rules.yml

## Other Yale University APIs (12)

- [LUX Collections Discovery — Search API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-search-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Documents API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-documents-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Facets API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-facets-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Related API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-related-api/)
- [Yale Dataverse Repository API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/dataverse/)
- [Yale University Library Digital Collections IIIF](https://apis.io/apis/yale/iiif/)
- [Yale University Identity Federation Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/yale/identity-federation/)
- [Yale API Portal — Portal APIs](https://apis.io/apis/yale/portal/)
- [Yale Courses Web Service v3](https://apis.io/apis/yale/courses/)
- [Yale Enterprise (SOA) Services](https://apis.io/apis/yale/enterprise-soa/)
- [EliScholar OAI-PMH (bepress Digital Commons tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/yale/elischolar/)
- [Yale Course Search and University Publications (CourseLeaf tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/yale/course-catalog/)

## Tags

Configuration, Search

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